In order to do Carnage justice the movie needs to be rated "R". This is not going to happen. The series does not even need a reboot. Just start 4 with Parker waking up saying that was a really bad dream. Then proceed to give us a story involving the real Venom and not that skinny thing in 3.

I really hope it's as Carnage and not another Uncle Ben death revisit. It's been done for 3 straight movies. I think it's time to move on. On the other hand, they did such a bad job with Venom, I'm afraid they'll do it again with Carnage.

I was hoping this would be something about Venom, so that they could tell a proper Venom story without shoehorning him in to some shitty movie with too many other villains.

While I still think of Eddie Brock in the comics as the "true" Venom, I would like to see them use the symbiote(s) in the movies with a better storyline and a better actor. I could handle them somehow creating Carnage from the Venom symbiote and having him attach to Cletus Cassidy as the only villain in the movie. That could actually work, if done properly.

i think the mac gargan venom is the only way to go now, after the joke was suposed to be eddie brock (no fault of topher race who i think done a good job bein more like spidey than spidey) the only way to do venom right is to hav mac gargon, carnage could never be done right in a movie thats a 12a, he was a serial killer BEFORE he had a symbiote!!!

"How and why Carradine will be brought back for the fourth film remains to be seen, but we presume it will be a flashback. The question is why revisit Uncle Ben's death again? Is there something else we didn't know about it? And does that mean Sandman will also be back?"

That is so cool how IGN writers just go right on and ASSUME all of this directly after saying how they don't know how he will fit in the fourth film. What a bunch of amazing jackasses!

That is so cool how IGN writers just go right on and ASSUME all of this directly after saying how they don't know how he will fit in the fourth film. What a bunch of amazing jackasses! [-] Minimize Comment

Clever how it sounded like they'd be bringing back Venom. Seriously though, that's what needs to happen. They played it up in their marketing for the movie and then he is only there for the last scene. Not cool. I still think that with the way the movie ended we can't be sure what happened to Venom, so if they want to get public opinion on their side, they need Venom.

Jesus christ, all you little babies keep crying "VENOM, VENOM, VENOM!" You idiots are the reason that Venom was in the last film, thrown in at the last second, then didn't get the treatment he deserved. Raimi made a fantastic SpiderMan 2, let him make 4 without the idiotic, fanboy cries.

I just hope SM4 is better than 3.... 3 was.. OKAY but overall dissapointing to me. I really hope that Sandman doesn't come back... just didn't do it for me. You know what'd be really really really awesome? If we saw... Tombstone! Even Kingpin? That'd be sweet, and if Raimi wants to explore the darker side of the spider, maybe he should look more into the crime of Spidermans world. That, plus a little Spectacular Spiderman style acting on McGuires part, would TOTALLY make the film. At least for me.

@ mrshock13
You need to open your eyes and look at the full picture here. Venom, despite being mostly ruined in the movie, was still one of the only real bright spots of that entire movie. And the idiots who say the demand for Venom ruined the movie need to open their fucking eyes and realize most of the faults with Spider Man 3 were the faults of Raimi's original script, NOT anything related to Venom.

Really, if you remove Venom and the black suit from the equation Spider Man 3 would have been an even greater travesty of a film that would have been a dumbed down boring as fuck movie that pretty much would have been copy/paste of Spider Man 2. Most of the problems with the third movie were Raimi's fault in general and not Sony or fan faults. If you look at alot of the faults with #3 you'll probably realize that most of those same issues exist in the first two films as well, people just like to overlook them because they go "OMFG LIVE ACTION SPIDERMAN MOVIE" despite the films not being THAT true to the source material. Thankfully Mr. Nolan showed us how to make a great superhero movie thats pretty damn true to source without needing to add unnecessary hokey camp into everything. While comparing Dark Knight to Spiderman is apples and oranges, TDK definitely made the Spiderman trilogy look a bit less grand and a whole lot more dry then people original thought they were. Which sucks, because Spidey is my personal favorite comic hero.

Jesus christ, all you little babies keep crying "VENOM, VENOM, VENOM!" You idiots are the reason that Venom was in the last film, thrown in at the last second, then didn't get the treatment he deserved. Raimi made a fantastic SpiderMan 2, let him make 4 without the idiotic, fanboy cries.

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Fans wanted Venom and it was not the fans fault Sony and the director royally screwed the entire thing up. But even if you took every part that had Venom in it out of Spiderman 3, the movie still overall sucked. You got emo Peter, tons of crying, you have Peter who does a retarded dance piano routine, every party with Mary Jane was awful new chick was way hotter lol, all in all you just have a movie that SUCKED!! More then anything else though their casting for Eddie Brock was f****** retarded who ever hired Topher Grace should be fired and flogged. I mean come on..

As for Venom, when I saw that it was going to be Eric from "That 70's show" I decided that moment not to watch that movie. A ex of mine made me watch it, as far as I'm concerned there is no Spider Man 3. If you want venom, get someone like Brock Lessner or, hell, even Triple H, Eddie Brock is a professional Body Builder, he's HUGE compared to Parker, they need to flog more than Sony and the Hiring manager and the director for that.

As for the next major villain. I say hobgoblin (I'll admit he's my second favorite villain in the spider man series). Carnage wouldn't make sense yet. Plus I don't know if they have someone who's small enough yet insane looking enough to take Carnage's personality.

Venom was horribly done, and I don't think that's anyone's fault except for the people who made the movie. But forget about Venom, the movie sucked with or without him. The plot, the acting, the overall story was thrown down the shitter. I was a huge fan of spiderman 1 & 2, and when I walked out of the theater for spiderman 3, I was devastated. After getting two movies right, how can Sam possibly fuck this up.

After that day I swore to never pay for a spidey flick again, hell, I may never want to see one again.

If they just make stand alone stories from now in this and any future spiderman movie, would be far better, have had there trilogy now just focus on good spiderman stories, Just leave venom and carnage and the green goblin out of this one, also maybe stop killing off the bad guys, as heroes are not meant to kill off everyone

I hope this does indeed mean that this actor returning means a hallucination by Mysterio or masquerading by the Chameleon--either villain would work awesomely on screen with another bad guy like Lizard in there as well.

i wish they can somehow restart everything without killing anyone like harry osbourne HOW THE HELL IS HE DEAD!!! i wish the first movie would be like how peter got his powers then fell for the RIGHT GIRL (gwen stacy) then have the green goblin be the bad guy and have her killed off from the brooklyn bridge and have spidey and green goblin go in the ultimate battle and then introduce mary jane

but as of spiderman 4 lol i hope storytelling is better cuz we all know the action and special effects and all will be there we jus need better story and plot and as of villains i really hope dr. connors turns into the lizard and have him as the only villain or add another guy like mysterio or something that actually would make sense if 2 villains were put together

if marvel,s smart and stick to the source material comic with a no holds bar 3 hour battle royal that will physically test and push spiderman to the limit.
then i say that my sure money bet is on dr. curt conners and max dillon as the lizard and electro.
for onec just jump right into the movie without being bothered with looking at that whiney biotch mj that he,ll marry in spidey 4 before the movies over.
i,m sorry that gwen stacy was poorly portrayed in spidey 3 at least her character deserved better screen time if marvel decides to bring her back in a future installment.
awww! heck! no matter what the outcome i guess that were all suckers to see in at least just once.
as they say. " it,s their baby " lol marvel.
excelsior.

If their going to bring back Flint, then they should say instead of dying he was hurt...a lot. Then they could have Rhino vs. The Lizard vs. Spidey. Mysterio would be good in SM4 but Connors has been around way to long for them not to have him as the villain. If Marco is in a flashback, then have Mysterio in it & or Carnage. Carnage needs to come & redeem the tragedy they did to Venom. At least the could show the symbiote landing at the end.